Unresponsive upstream (bcache)

[Ian Pilcher]

I recently moved my Fedora 20 root filesystem to a bcache device, and I
discovered a bug (limitation?) that sometimes prevents my system from
booting properly.

I originally reported this problem to the bcache-devel mailing list on
July 18, and I followed up with a suggested fix/patch on July 22:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.bcache.devel/2594

I also entered a kernel bug:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80961

It's been more than a week since I first reported this issue, and I have
not received any response at all (other than a thread-jack about a
seemingly unrelated issue).

What is a good open-sourcer to do when patches are, apparently, not so
welcome?